Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 15:4

4 Nevertheless, for Davids sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem :

i. e. A Son and Successor to perpetuate his name and memory, which otherwise had gone into obscurity. The same Phrase is used above, ch. 11. 36. 2 King. 8. 19. 2 Chr. 21. 7.

i. e. That he might maintain that City, and Temple, and Worship, as a witness for God, in the World, against the Israelites and Heathen world, who should have enquired after it, and embraced the True Religion there established and set up, as a Beacon upon an high Hill, that all men might take notice of it.

Marginal references: Or, candle.